If you want to see and use the Lobo Browser integrated in the DeepaMehta networked semantic desktop, read on. This feature was lately mentioned in the outlook section of the article “knowledge weaver” published in the german LinuxMagazin.
In it’s current version the DeepaMehta Client Software has to be downloaded on your computer. You can use that express package (updated) I put together just today. After you expanded the packaged software you can connect to www.deepamehta.de to browse in collaboration. You can also start to use DeepaMehta right away locally, a HSQLDB-FileDB is already created and makes it easy to transfer your personal DeepaMehta to your Flash ROM. The collaborative part is more interesting cause you basically share the links you visit with everyone else who uses DeepaMehta to browse the web.
To connect your client to browse the web go to the directory where you’ve expanded the DeepaMehta Software within a command line and enter start the run script which corresponds to either windows or *nix machines like I do with the following line on my ubuntu system:
./run.sh dmc -Ddm.host=www.deepamehta.de -Ddm.port=7778
username and password is test
To run dmc means starting just your client and conenct it to another server than the one you use locally. ([update:] linux users can run the browse.sh script from your DeepaMehta Home directory which contains exactly that line.)
I also integrated the Yahoo Search API into DeepaMehta This enables you to search the world wide web through a “Yahoo Search” of each topics (and of any types) context menu in DeepaMehta. You’ll get a result list which differs a bit from which you might know from the browser. that’s the way you can start to browse your results immediately through revealing webpage topics in your DeepaMehta Client.
Furthermore, nalablalbla, it would be interesting to use another search engine than Yahoo if you search for e.g. Audio or Image Topics and if that would be configurable for the user. Another promising scenario might import your delicious tags which help you getting started, browsing with DeepaMehta. This may easy scale to match your personal blog tags in their meta categories, bookmapping.
I am looking forward to extend DeepaMehta’s Browser functionality sooner or later, with making use of Multimedia Plugins and help you starting the Browser out of the Web.
This browsing feature may remain as a lonesome rider in software universe but it was heck of a fun, to construct.
Thanks jri ! Enjoy it ! well, as soon as you have ported the jdk 1.5 to fit wit your Mac OS X “Panther” system just as gracely as you ported the couchdb and lucene
Thats my small “Triumph of the Nerd”
and you called it “constructive browsing” in “stable views”